From: Sascha H. <sa...@xm...> - 2010-06-23 09:46:15
|
I don't know how it works for the iPhone, but at least for Android you can develop an app that makes use of features of newer APIs while still supporting old phones. So at least this is not an issue, unless your app heavily depends on some new feature. // Sascha On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Dr. Alexander K. Seewald <al...@se...>wrote: > Concerning which devices are in the market... I don't know this for > iPhone, but Android has a nice current overview at > http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html > > It used to be 1:1:1 for 1.5, 1.6 and 2.1 a few months ago, but now > it is 1:1:2. So taking away support for 1.5 would correspond to a > reduction in market share of about 25%. That said, the first > version of devices did not always have useful update paths (e.g. > the Samsung i7500 cannot be updated...) and are significantly > different in hardware capabilities (e.g. far less control in camera > interface), so there would be some rationale in removing them. > > Does anyone has any numbers? Which proportion of the iPhones > currently out there are not updateable to iOS 4? > > Best, > Alex > -- > Dr. Alexander K. Seewald > > Seewald Solutions > www.seewald.at > Tel. +43(664)1106886 > Fax. +43(1)2533033/2764 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > xmlvm-users mailing list > xml...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmlvm-users > |